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9 Times WWE's WrestleMania Main Event Was The WORST Match - Whose Yard Is It? The Rock Prolongs The Agony! Can Triple H Get Roman Over? Does WrestleMania 9 Even Count As A Match?!

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4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This is the opposite of "send the fans home happy": the absolute stinkers that closed out Mania. Simon Miller presents 9 Times WWE's WrestleMania Main Event Was The WORST Match...


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0:00.0

Worst is a strong word, but look, I, Simon Miller went back and watched all these main events that we're going to talk about today and yeah.

0:06.8

The issue is those two words, main event.

0:09.9

When you slap that on something at WrestleMania, expectations zoom up.

0:13.5

You also get the problem of other matches just stealing the entire show, meaning when you do get to the closing fight,

0:18.9

fans have kind of had their fill.

0:21.2

Planning a wrestling card is a skill.

0:23.6

That rhymes, so it must be true.

0:25.3

So what has fallen foul when it does come to this?

0:28.4

Let us all find out.

0:29.9

Number nine, WrestleMania 8.

0:31.6

Sid Justice versus Hulk Hogan.

0:33.8

This was just a catalogue of errors.

0:35.6

Before we get to the main event, though,

0:37.1

let's go back

0:37.8

to that point from the intro. On this show, you also get Roddy Piper versus Brett Hart and

0:42.7

a WWF title bout between Rick Flair and the matchelman, Randy Savage. Both are great even today.

0:49.0

They do not age. As Sid and Hulk were going on last, the then WWF pulled the whole double

0:53.8

main event to tell you that the world title was still important.

0:57.0

I imagine Hogan had told whoever would listen he would close the event no matter what.

1:01.0

It wasn't going to work for him, brother.

1:02.9

Hulk and Justice did have a story in the sense they had fallen out of the Royal Rumble, but still,

1:06.7

this didn't have the heat or legs to be the closure, and given what Hogan had done at the last

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